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Category Archives: Commentary
For Antonio Negri (1933-2023)
“I am not an anarchist from any standpoint, regardless of the situation we find ourselves in.” The words are Antonio Negri’s, from a 2010 interview (e-flux journal). And yet we learned from him, even in disagreement. And Negri’s work – … Continue reading
Revolution and Destruction: The Fascist Obstacle
From lundimatin #407, December 11, 2023 … This text was written by the philosopher Jean Vioulac for a gathering organised by Lundimatin at the Consulate, in Paris, on December 2, 2023. The theme revived the most haunting dichotomy of our contemporary … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, Jean Vioulac, Karl Marx, revolution
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The “Deaths” of Poet Writers: Nour El-Din Haggag and Refaat Alareer
From lundimatin, #407, December 11, 2023 … The young Palestinian writer and poet Nour El-Din Haggag has just died on December 5, followed on December 7 by the poet Refaat Alareer, after the bombing of their house in Gaza. One … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, israel, Judith Butler, Nour El-Din Haggag, palestine, Refaat Alareer
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For Alfredo M. Bonanno (1927-2023)
Being an anarchist does not mean one has reached a certainty or said once and for all, ‘There, from now on I hold the truth and as such, at least from the point of view of the idea, I am … Continue reading
Eyal Weizman: The architecture of power in Israel’s war on the Palestinians
The architecture of colonialism and segregation by Israel is a multi-layered and shifting deployment of techniques of separation and surveillance; multi-layered because the well-known “wall of separation” in the West Bank is but one of a number physical obstacles employed … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Eyal Weizman, israel, palestine
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Judith Butler: Palestinians Are Not Being “Regarded as People” by Israel and US
The Truthout news service has generously given us permission to share an excellent interview with Judith Butler by George Yancy, on this most recent Israeli military campaign against Gaza and its people. (31/10/2023) Judith Butler calls for immediate ceasefire, Palestinians’ … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-racism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, George Yancy, israel, Judith Butler, palestine
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Back to the Future
The Return of the Ultraliberal Right in Argentina (From CrimethInc. 26/11/2023) Last week, the extreme right won electoral victories in the Netherlands and Argentina. The global reactionary wave that brought Donald Trump to power did not subside with his electoral loss in … Continue reading
Raúl Zibechi: Argentina from below
From Desinformémonos (20/11/2023) … With the triumph of Javier Milei, a cycle of Argentine politics closes, a cycle that began in December 2001 with the popular insurrection that overthrew the government of Fernando de la Rúa and his neoliberal policies … Continue reading
Peter Gelderloos: Israel is Committing Genocide
From Peter Gelderloos’ blog/website, Surviving Leviathan, we share a recent essay (17/10/2023) by him on the current violence in Palestine/Israel. What the Israeli government is currently doing to occupied Palestine meets all the criteria for genocide. Time and again, the … Continue reading
Antonio Negri: Marx Beyond Marx
To sum up Negri’s exposition of Marx’s line of argument in the Grundrisse: capitalism is a social system with two subjectivities, in which one subject (capital) controls the other subject (working class) through the imposition of work and surplus work. … Continue reading →